Jürgen Rüttgers

Jürgen Rüttgers (born 26 June 1951 in Cologne) is a German politician (CDU) who was Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2010. He is widely known for his views on immigration and the much-discussed phrase "Kinder statt Inder" ("children instead of Indians") which was a media interpretation of "Statt Inder an die Computer müssen unsere Kinder an die Computer" ("instead of Indians in front of computers, our children must be in front of computers"), during an election campaign (which he finally lost) at a time when there was a parallel nationwide discussion about whether or not immigration rules should be liberalised on behalf of attracting more highly qualified foreign academics to the German labor market. His opinions on the superiority of the Christian religion, which he expressed in a TV talk-show were also a reason for headlines lately.
In the state parliament (Landtag) election 2005, Jürgen Rüttgers was the opposition Christian...